Everything I Need to Know About Mindfulness I Learned From Dolly Parton
There are some days when I sit down to meditate and I slip right into following my breath. These days are rare. Most days, my mind is babbling away.
Avoid the Traps of Unconscious Loving
Are you creating misunderstanding, hurt and conflict in your most cherished relationships — without even knowing it?
Deepak Chopra Shares The Happiness Prescription
When it comes to mind-body health, spirituality and peace, Deepak Chopra has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s experts. Now he has turned his attention toward happiness.
Meditation 101: Techniques, Benefits & Beginner’s How-to
Meditation is an approach to training the mind, similar to the way that fitness is an approach to training the body. Here is an introduction to the styles and benefits of regular practice.
Joan Borysenko Talks About Being Open to Spiritual Guidance
Integrative medicine pioneer and renowned mind-body connection expert Joan Borysenko talks about opening up to spiritual guidance.
Why Good People Do Bad Things
Author and psychologist Debbie Ford explains how and why embracing your dark side can help keep you from doing something rash that damages the life you work so hard to create.
Eckhart Tolle's Advice For Waking Up and Living Your Best Life
An excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," an Oprah’s Book Club selection and webcast event. For many who may not even have realized it, the process of awakening has already begun.
10 Ways To Nurture Greatness In Your Child
Great kids are emotionally and intellectually healthy people. Great doesn't refer to a specific temperamental quality, such as boldness; nor does it depend on athletic skills or on musical or mathematical or artistic talent. Great kids come in all varieties. And, given the right nurturing and encouragement, all kids can be great kids.
How I Stay So Happy: Q&A with Patricia Moreno
What keeps this powerhouse personal trainer so darned joyful — and how the rest of us can get our hands on whatever she eats for breakfast.
Stand By Your Mantra for a New Attitude
How to get started using mantras, how to choose a mantra, insight on the origin of mantras and their power for better well-being, and tips on using mantras to help with anything you're struggling with.
Utopian Intentional Community Has Thrived for 30 Years
A tour of the intentional community Damanhur, a 'social experiment' whose local economy, utopian values, and environmental sustainability have worked for 30 years.
Why Meditate? Science Finds Clues
Researchers are finding exciting evidence of meditation’s effects on the brain -- new clues to why it can help calm emotions, sharpen reasoning and even make you healthier.
Marianne Williamson Talks About Inner and Outer Peace
If you’re learning ways to find inner peace, are you really helping create world peace? Q&A with best-selling author and peace activist Marianne Williamson on what “being peace” looks like.
The Truth About Happiness: Q&A with Michael Beckwith
Michael Beckwith answers our top questions on the keys to becoming truly happy, based on the advice he shares as an expert featured in "The Secret" and "Living Luminaries."
4 Ways to Tap Into Your Intuition
Tips and techniques from experts on cultivating, tapping into, and trusting your intuition to help you make decisions -- in your personal life and even in business scenarios.
How to Break Through Toxic Emotions
Life coaching expert and author Debbie Ford helps you identify which of the 11 emotions are most impacting your life — and shows you important steps to breaking free of them.
15 Easy Ways to Be Healthier
A doctor, nutritionist and fitness trainer each recommend their top five changes they recommend in diet, exercise and stress management to improve your health without a big lifestyle change.
3 Steps to Being ‘Happy for No Reason’
Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author Marci Shimoff, a featured expert in ‘The Secret,’ shares tips from her new book ‘Happy for No Reason.’
How to Be Green in the Afterlife
Death these days is bad news for the environment. Although you can't stop the steady march of time, you can ensure that your passing does not take such a toll on the earth by informing your loved ones to provide you with a green burial.
Creating a Sacred Space at Home
Create a special place for meditation, rituals, reflection and just renewing your spirit. These 15 tips will help you use candles, statues, sculptures, lighting, altars, cushions, furniture and more to express your spirituality and connect with what's meaningful to you.
Mariel Hemingway: Front and Centered
Finding peace wasn't always easy for Mariel Hemingway. In her book Finding My Balance, Mariel narrates a life story filled with painful memories compounded by a career that puts incredible pressure on women to look a certain way. But through yoga, Mariel was able to firmly plant her feet.
Organic Farming Changes Everything: Part 2, Escaping the Chemicals
The local ecosystem and the religious beliefs of a community of cotton farming families in rural India called for unique solutions to some universal agricultural challenges. Organic farming methods proved to be the solution on all counts.
Rodney Yee Says "Be Quiet": Q&A on Meditation
The yoga and meditation expert on why it's not enough to "be present" in everyday life, how you can respond vs. react in challenging situations, and why this is one of the most important skills a regular meditation practice can help you learn.
Finding Spirit: Q&A with the Body Prayer Diva
America has embraced Seane Corn, the yoga teacher known for her unapologetic spiritual bent. What are they connecting with in her message? An intimate and candid interview with one of America's most sought-after yoga teachers.
Oh, Goddess! Is feminine divinity what's missing in your spiritual life?
Why honoring a goddess shatters female stereotypes and reveals creative, nurturing and intuitive elements of the divine -- filling a void in the lives of many modern spiritual seekers.
How to De-Stress in 1 Minute
Life running you ragged? Schedule too packed for you to breathe? Learn how to take short, 60-second mini-meditations to clear your mind and quickly reduce stress and release tension when the pressure is on.
Travel as Meditation: Journey to Renewal
This time last year, I heard the call. I finished a challenging project, put my things in storage, and embarked on what I could only call a walkabout. I planned to be gone for a couple of months, yet I could not see myself returning. Being present in travel means opening yourself to what surrounds you -- immersion.
